Berman Award winner

The Berman Award is presented to scholars for an outstanding article on the subject of law and religion published within their first ten years of teaching at an AALS member school. Storslee received the award for his article, “Religious Accommodation, the Establishment Clause, and Third-Party Harm,” 86 University of Chicago Law Review 871 (2019).

Storslee is assistant professor of law at Penn State Law; his scholarship focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech and topics in constitutional law. He earned his JD from Stanford Law School, MTS from Duke University, MA from University of Edinburgh, and BA from Furman University. He is a PhD candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia, and he will clerk for Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch during the 2020 – 2021 Supreme Court term.

Another McDonald fellow, Nathan Chapman, an associate professor at University of Georgia School of Law, received the Berman Award in 2017 for his article, “The Establishment Clause, State Action, and Town of Greece,” 24 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 405 (2015).

Harold J. Berman is considered the father of the modern study of law and religion. Emory’s first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, he was an expert in comparative law, international law, Soviet/Russian law, legal history, philosophy of law, and the intersection of law and religion. He was a law professor at Harvard Law School and Emory University School of Law for more than sixty years total.

 

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